Jointly responsible for the strategic agenda of the road administration on transport and logistics. The current focus is on network use optimization and sustainable freight transport.

Involved in policy-making on weights and dimensions of commercial vehicles and in the assessment of Field Operational Tests with automated and cooperative vehicles on public roads. Loes Aarts is President of the International Forum for Road Transport Technology (IFRTT) and former chair of the OECD-ITF working group Policies to extend the life of road assets.

Alan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics in the Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. A graduate of the universities of Aberdeen, British Columbia and London, he has been researching and teaching in freight transport / logistics for 40 years and published extensively on many different aspects of the subject.  Much of his research in recent years has been on the decarbonisation of logistics. Professor McKinnon has been an adviser to several governments, parliamentary committees and international organisations, including the ITF/OECD, the World Bank, European Commission, the United Nations and the IPCC. He was chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Logistics Council and the Transport Advisory Group of the EU Horizon 2020 research programme. 

Jerker Sjögren is economist (Umeå University/School of Economics, 1972). He has a long career within both public and private sector as management consultant or head of different organizations. Since beginning of 2016 Jerker Sjögren is an independent consultant within his own company, Jesjo Konsult. From March 2011 Jerker Sjögren has been responsible for building up and operating CLOSER, a new Swedish arena for transport efficiency, focusing on innovation and research. High Capacity Transport (HCT) is one of three focus areas for CLOSER. Since 2015 Jerker Sjögren has been chairman for the ITF/OECD working group on HCT. Jerker Sjögren was earlier Senior Adviser at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications responsible for strategic logistics issues and coordinator of the Swedish Logistics Forum.

At the European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services (CLECAT), Ms Miglė Blusevičiūtė is focusing on road and maritime transport policy issues at the European level, aiming to integrate sustainability aspects into logistics supply chain. Prior to that, Miglė worked on environmental and sustainability issues pertaining to road transport at the European headquarters of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and also as a consultant for Hyundai Motor Europe. Holding a Master’s degree in EU policy studies, she gained experience at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market and Industry, as well as the World Trade Organisation.

 

Responsible for executive leadership and strengthening relations with partner universities involved in the research and teaching of public administration, public sector leadership and research into public policy and regulation. Chris has had a 20 year career in the Australian public service working in senior executive positions in health, transport and central agency portfolios. Chris’s PhD examined regulatory reform in the Australian trucking sector and current research examines the international transfer of models of road transport regulation, as well as the implications of digital regulation and compliance in the road transport sector.

Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.

Mr. Adrian Gane has been Regional General Manager in Sales, at Etihad Airways since July 2012. Mr. Gane is currently CEO of a major lobbying organisation in the UK, and a senior Government Affairs Director and advisor with Etihad Airways based in Abu Dhabi. Mr. Gane served as Managing Director of Amadeus Gulf from April 14, 2011 to July 2012. He served as Commercial Director and a Member of the Management Board at OnAir Switzerland Sarl since February 2006, with extensive commercial and political experience gained in a variety of roles held internationally (Far East, Middle East, Europe) and in the UK.

Angus Mckenzie has joined the government as a councillor of the city of Cape Town since August 2016.

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is the Minister of Transport and Local Government of Iceland. He has been in this position since 2017. He is also the Minister for Nordic Co-operation and Chairman of the Progressive Party.

As Head of the Regional Development and Tourism Division in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Alain Dupeyras oversees OECD work on tourism, on rural policies and on other regional and territorial issues. Alain works closely with Members and Partners, the private sector and other international organisations to develop policies that address major challenges in all these policy areas. The Tourism Committee [21], the  Regional Development Policy Committee [22], and the Working Party on Rural Policy [23] are key OECD fora to assist governments in the assessment and improvement of these policies.  Through the Working Party on Tourism Statistics [24], Alain also contributes to an improved measurement and analysis of tourism services.

As its chief executive, Bhatt promotes policies that advance the development and deployment of intelligent transportation technologies throughout the United States. He has testified before Congress about the positive safety impact of intelligent transportation technologies, including connected and automated vehicles. Bhatt is a leading voice in transportation on technology’s ability to save lives and reduce crashes on U.S. roadways. He speaks extensively about the importance of vehicles to communicate with each other and all roadway users as one of the best ways to improve safety and reduce congestion. He is also passionate about reducing transportation’s carbon footprint and the need to provide seamless mobility and transportation choices to people no matter where they live. Bhatt was appointed as a transportation leader by three governors. While serving as Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), the agency launched the Road X program, which is focused on deploying innovative technology solutions such as connected vehicles and teaming with the private sector to shape the future of transportation. Prior to CDOT, Bhatt was Cabinet Secretary for the Delaware Department of Transportation. He was also a presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Bhatt has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) and the Executive Committee of the I-95 Corridor Coalition; he was a member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council on the Future of Automotive and Personal Transport. Bhatt graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Western Kentucky University. He lives with his wife and two young daughters in Washington, DC.

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Axel Threlfall is Editor-at-Large, Reuters, based in London. Alongside his editorial duties, he hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news programs in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London. Before that, he was an editor with The Wall Street Journal in New York and a news reporter for Bloomberg in London. He has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media. Axel is frequently asked to moderate events for international organizations, including the United Nations and the OECD. He has a BA in History from Durham University and a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University, London.

Mr. Christoph Bergdolt is the Vice President for Product and Technology in Swarco AG Group. In his position he is responsible for all the product companies of the ITS division and corporate Innovation and Technology. Areas of activities cover most of the ITS domain ranging from smart mobility, urban traffic control, highways and tunnels, car parking, e-mobility to public transport.

Christoph has more than 20 years’ experience in managing director positions, global sales and business development in the transportation sector. He hold executive positions at Siemens (Member of the Siemens One Board Airports / Transportation), Atos and other global enterprises. He has a cross-cultural sensitivity with broad academic foundation, in Law and Master in Business Administration (International Business).

Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.

Mr. Chen assumed the role of Senior Director for the Transport Global Practice (GP), within the Infrastructure Vice-Presidency at the World Bank Group, in November 2018. In this position, he leads the formulation and implementation of strategy and programs for sustainable road, urban, rail, logistics, water and air transport, as well as key cross-cutting agendas such as road safety, climate adaptation/mitigation, gender, human capital development, disruptive technologies and financing. He has a leading role in the global Sustainable Mobility for All initiative, that gathers over 50 foremost international development organizations and key sector players to set the framework for sector coordination and development impact. Mr. Chen supports the development and delivery of knowledge and financing programs to country clients, overseeing a total portfolio of roughly $40 billion, in over 180 projects in more than 100 countries. He leads a team of some 250 specialists from over 80 nationalities, based in more than 40 countries.A Chinese national, Mr. Chen holds a graduate degree in Economics from Harvard University, USA, and B.A. in Economics from Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University, Guangzhou, China.

Cécile Texier is the Sustainability & CSR Vice-President of Alstom, a key player in the transport sector, developing and delivering sustainable solutions focused on shared and electrical mobility. Cécile drives the Sustainability, CSR and Climate strategy, 3-year plan and policies, local communities investment programs, sustainability in marketing activities, extra-financial reporting and dialog with stakeholders. In 2018, she was also appointed Global Diversity Champion of the Company.

She initially joined Alstom Group as Environment Health and Safety analyst in 2005 to manage corporate Energy and CO₂ programs. She had previous experience as environmental auditor at KPMG, leading assessments of environmental issues in the frame of merger and acquisition projects and verification of extra-financial data, and at the French National Institute for Environment and Risks (INERIS) where she started her career as environmental management consultant in 1997. She is also a Board member of the Alstom Foundation.

Cécile Texier holds a Civil Engineer degree from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.

 

Mohamed Mezghani has been working for more than 25 years in public transport and urban mobility related fields. He has been elected Secretary General of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and will be taking office on 1/01/2018. He has been Deputy Secretary General of UITP the since January 2014. Until then, he has worked at UITP as Senior Manager (1999-2001) and Knowledge Director (2001-2006) chairing the department developing knowledge-related services for UITP members: professional training, research projects, thematic studies, technical advice, conferences, networking activities, information centre, etc. From 2006 till 2013, he has worked as independent consultant and Adviser to UITP on several technical assistance and training projects in Africa and the Middle-East and managed a number of projects involving numerous experts and multidisciplinary teams. Before joining UITP, M. Mezghani has been working as consultant in the French group, BCEOM, (from 1990 to 1999) more particularly in the urban mobility field. He has managed and carried out projects including policy definition, technical assistance and research activities in several countries in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Arab countries. During his collaboration with the French Agency for Environment and Energy Management, ADEME, (from 1988-1990), M. Mezghani carried out actions aimed at identifying and evaluating transport energy efficiency projects likely to be financed by the Agency in France. He has been graduated in Industrial Engineering (1987) from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia and has a Master in Transport (1988) from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France.

Vera Scholz is Director Climate Change, Environment and Infrastructure within GIZ where she started to work in 1999. She is working in development cooperation since 20 years. Her areas of expertise are climate change, management of natural resources, infrastructure (energy, transport and water), voluntary social and environmental standards, corporate social responsibility and public private partnerships for sustainable development.  She has been working in Asia (India) and Africa (Kenya). Vera Scholz has a master in political science with focus on international relations.

Mary Crass is Head of Institutional Relations and Summit for the Paris-based International Transport Forum, an intergovernmental organisation linked to the OECD. She is responsible for the ITF’s relations with Member countries, international organisations and associations, and the annual International Transport Forum Summit in Leipzig each May https://www.itf-oecd.org/ [48]. She has contributed to the organisation’s work on sustainable urban travel, accessible transport and social inclusion, and crime and terrorism issues in transport. She served as sherpa to the ITF Secretary General on the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Urban Transport, and was on the drafting committee for the final report of that group delivered to UN Secretary General in October 2016.

 

She recently chaired the International Road Transport Association’s (IRU) Future of the Taxi Reflection Group and is currently co-chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Accessible Transportation Committee - subcommittee on Policy and Practice.

 

Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Crass worked as a private consultant focusing on transport and environment issues for among others the UN Environment Programme, the European Commission and OECD, as well as private enterprise. She was previously with a U.S.-based environmental consulting firm specialising in environmental technical assistance work in developing countries and emerging economies.

 

Ms. Crass has a Masters Degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with specialisations in international economics and energy and environment policy and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union as first secretary for research policy and as scientific and technological attaché. In 2007 Ms Van Veldhoven became a policy advisor at the European Commission, focusing on the coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. From 2009 to 2010 she was unit coordinator for the Zuidvleugel Randstad region at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. On 17 June 2010 Ms Van Veldhoven became a member of the House of Representatives for Democrats ’66 (D66), with policy responsibility for issues including sustainability, mobility, climate and energy, development cooperation, and agriculture, nature and food quality. From 2012 to 2017 she served as a member of the presidium and secretary to the D66 parliamentary party. On 26 October 2017 Stientje van Veldhoven was appointed State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the third Rutte government.

Umberto de Pretto is the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He joined the IRU in 1995 as Head of Economic Affairs. He then became Policy Coordinator and Head of Strategy, and was appointed Deputy Secretary General in 2002. His vision looking forward to 2020 is that the IRU will lead the road transport industry in embracing innovation and making sure that the industry is ready for the challenges and opportunities ahead. After graduating from Ottawa’s Carleton University in Political Science, Economics and International Relations, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Ministers and Members of the Canadian Parliament and then moved to Paris in 1992 to take on the position of Head of the Transport Division, to be shortly afterwards named Deputy Director of the International Chamber of Commerce, responsible for International Commercial Practices and Techniques.

Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.

Since 1 February 2016, Clara de la Torre is appointed Director for 'Transport' in the Directorate-General for Research & Innovation at the European Commission, marking the forth assignment at such position in the course of last 8 years. Previously, starting in 2014, she was responsible for the dossier 'Key Enabling Technologies', following a 3-years' appointment as Director in the field of 'Research and Innovation.'  In her first post as a Director, from 2008 to 2010, she was in charge of 'Inter-institutional and legal matters related to the Framework Programme' at the European Commission.

After a couple of years in private sector, her professional career was focussing on the research policies which became the springboard to working opportunities at the European Commission in 1987. In the late 90's, she was dealing with 'National Research Policies & Intergovernmental Cooperation.' She was also working at the EU Joint Research Centre both in Brussels and Seville, where she was Advisor to the Director of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. 

Clara de la Torre has a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.

With over 20 years’ international experience in the technology and transportation and sectors, Sharon Masterson currently works with the International Transport Forum (ITF)  at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organisation of 59 member countries to facilitate global dialogue for better transport. In her role with the Corporate Partnership Board, the ITF’s platform for engaging with the private sector, she works with leading global enterprises to ensure transport policy discussions are enriched with a business perspective. Prior to joining the OECD in 2009, she spent ten years in commercial and operational management positions in Groupe Air France, Paris and Dublin and worked as Area Manager Benelux for a company supporting US tech companies launch in Europe. She worked as Business Development Manager in a tech startup and has also spent a number of years in Germany at Würth GmbH & Co. KG.

Mr. Grabert has worked for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for more than 20 years. He heads the Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation. Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition, he also currently leads the secretariat’s work on Global Climate Action in supporting Non-State-Actors’ efforts towards the Paris Agreement. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College, Masters of International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Management at Stanford University, University of Navarra (IESE) and London Business School, and in Development at Harvard University.

Axel Threlfall is Editor-at-Large, Reuters, based in London. Alongside his editorial duties, he hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news programs in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London. Before that, he was an editor with The Wall Street Journal in New York and a news reporter for Bloomberg in London. He has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media. Axel is frequently asked to moderate events for international organizations, including the United Nations and the OECD. He has a BA in History from Durham University and a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University, London.

Secretary Elaine L. Chao is the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. She also served as U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first Asian American woman appointed to the President's cabinet in American history. Prior to the Department of Labor, Secretary Chao was President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America.

She has also served as Deputy Maritime Administrator; Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission; Deputy U.S. Secretary of Transportation; and, Director of the Peace Corps.  She earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Li Xiaopeng is serving as the Minister of Transport of the P.R. China. He is the former chief executive of China Huaneng Group, a power generation company. He was also Governor of Shanxi between 2012 and 2016.

Mr. Lim was born in Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do, in the Republic of Korea. He majored in nautical science at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), Busan, graduating in 1977. He worked on ships as a Korean naval officer and for an international shipping company. He joined the Korea Maritime and Port Administration in 1985, while continuing with further studies at the Graduate School of Administration, Yonsei University, obtaining a Master’s Degree in 1990.  He then studied maritime administration at the World Maritime University (WMU), graduating with a master’s degree. From 1995 he attended a doctoral programme for international law at KMOU, completing course work in 1998.  Mr. Lim began attending IMO meetings as part of the Republic of Korea’s delegation in 1986 and he engaged in activities to promote maritime safety through effective implementation of IMO conventions in his country and other IMO Member States in the Asian region. He was elected Chair of IMO's Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation (FSI - now III) in 2001 and of the Tokyo Memorandum on Port State Control in 2004.  In 2006, Mr. Lim was appointed Director General of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) and then as a Senior Maritime Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in London and led all IMO work for the Republic of Korea, serving as an Alternate Permanent Representative to IMO up to August 2009. Following that, he was re-appointed Director General for Maritime Safety Bureau (MLTM). In March 2011, Mr. Lim was appointed Commissioner of the Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal (KMST).  In July 2012, he assumed the position of President of Busan Port Authority, until January 2016 when he took up his appointment as Secretary-General of IMO. 

Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.

Melinda Hanson, Senior Manager for Sustainability, joined Bird from the National Association of City Transportation Officials, where she served as deputy director of NACTO's international programs. Before that, Melinda was a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, helping design and implement public transit projects in Pakistan and the Philippines. Earlier in her career, she was a founding staff member of the ClimateWorks Foundation where she managed the sustainable transport portfolio

Tomas Eneroth is Minister for Infrastructure of Sweden since July 2017, responsible for transport and infrastructure in the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. He studied sociology and political science at Växjö University College. Before being appointed Minister for Infrastructure Mr Eneroth was Parliamentary Group Leader for the Social Democratic Party (2014–2017). Mr Eneroth has been a Member of Parliament since 1994 and during this time he has filled several different positions in different policy areas, including Chairman of the Committee on Social Insurance and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade. He was a political adviser in the Ministry of Education between 1996 and 2002, and State Secretary in the same Ministry in 1999.

Jaeho Lee has been a Director of Digital Economy Institute of Kakao Mobility. The company is the number one mobility platform of Republic of Korea, providing services of taxi hailing, navigation, parking, designated driver, and electric bike sharing. As of April 2019, the number of registered users is more than 22 million.  

Jaeho is also a member of the Technology Commercialization Advisory Board and the Industry-Academia Networks Forum of Korean Government. He worked for Hyundai Research Institute, Hyundai Motor Company, and LGCNS as an economist and consultant. His specialties include digital economy, O2O business, automotive industry, and industrial policies. 

Mr. Michio Kikuchi was appointed as Vice-Minister for Engineering Affairs for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan in July 2018. Having joined the Ministry of Transport in April 1985, he has held senior leadership positions mainly in Ports and Harbours Bureau. He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering.

Rafał Weber is responsible for matters related to road transport, public roads and road safety. Since 2015, he is a member of the Parliament. There, he is a member of the parliamentary committee of infrastructure and national defense commissions.

From 2014 he was the deputy director of the Provincial Traffic Center in Tarnobrzeg (Poland). In 2010-2014 and 2014-2015, the councilor of the City Council in Stalowa Wola (Poland). Mr. Weber is a graduate of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów (Poland)

Chris Grayling was appointed as Secretary of State for Transport on 14 July 2016. He was elected Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell in 2001.

 Chris served as Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions from May 2010 until September 2012. He was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from September 2012 until May 2015, and Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from May 2015 until 14 July 2016. He also held a number of shadow front bench posts, including Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.

 Chris was educated at The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied history.

Mr. Jeong Ryeol Kim was appointed as Vice Minister for Transport, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korea in April 2018. Having joined the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from 1989, he has been in senior positions in Transport and Logistics, Road, Public Housing Construction, Policy Planning, as well as Public Agency Relocation departments. He also has experience as visiting professor in Portland State University, USA in 2015, as well as seconded to Urban Housing Office in Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Korea.

David Thiel, General Manager JUMP Berlin, joined Uber in 2014 and held several positions at Uber in Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands. He introduced new business models, led EMEA product operations and most recently launched the JUMP bicycles business in Germany. Prior to Uber, David gained experience in automotive industry focusing on quality and lean methodologies at Toyota and Porsche Consulting. He holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering and Business Administration.

Maurice Geraets MSc MBA is statutory director for the main legal entity of NXP Semiconductors world wide: NXP Semiconductors Netherlands B.V., with a yearly financial revenue of multi billion USD. Mr Geraets has 25 years of experience in the IT and electronics industry and works at NXP Semiconductors since 2002. In his current position he focuses on disruptive innovations for ‘secure connections for a smarter world’. This concerns e.g. intelligent transport systems (ITS) and automated driving. Next to his role at NXP, Maurice is active in the governance of the 1 billion Euro Dutch SmartwayZ program, is board member of several associations on automotive and mobility, is member of the High Level ITS Advisory Group to the European Commission and is member of the management committee of the European public private partnership AENEAS.

Before joining NXP, Mr. Geraets held positions as Business Manager In-Product Software and Global Client Manager with Atos, the largest European IT services company. In his Global Client Manager role, he was also responsible for the largest part of the Atos business in Asia. In his early working life Mr. Geraets served as Lieutenant in the Royal Dutch Navy.

Mr. Geraets holds an Executive MBA degree and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science. Mr. Geraets is Dutch and was born in 1968.

His Excellency Dr. Eng. Abdulla  Al-Nuaimi joined the Federal Government in 2013 as Minister of infrastructure Development, which is responsible of developing the infrastructure of the federal state road networks and federal buildings (schools, hospitals, government buildings, research centers, cultural and sports centers, police stations and civil defense, housing for the citizens, and other governmental projects).

Beside his responsibilities as a Minister Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al-Nuaimi is Chairman of Sheikh Zayed Housing Program and also he is a Chairman of Federal Transport Authority. 

Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al Nuaimi holds a Ph.D. degree in Construction Management from the University Of Reading, UK (1990), and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in USA (1980). Among his hobbies playing tennis, swimming and reading.

Melinda Crane is Chief Political Correspondent at Deutsche Welle-TV and hosts the talk shows "Quadriga" and "People and Politics" She was Senior Producer of "Global Players" on CNBC. She has moderated a wide variety of podium discussions and conferences for public organisations and private sector clients. Among her areas of expertise are transatlantic politics; women, family education issues; climate and environment; business and economics; new media and the internet. Crane holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Doctoral Degree in political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Mr. Christian Labrot is the President of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He enjoys a distinguished career in transport, which started in 1979 at BWV, the German Association of Professional Transport Companies and Shippers.  He was appointed Managing Director of BWV in 1990 and became Secretary General of the German Federation of Economics, Transport and Logistics in 1995. Mr Labrot has also served as a member of various IRU Commissions for many years, including: President of the IRU Liaison Committee for own-account transport and Vice-President of the Goods Transport Liaison Committee with the European Union. Mr Labrot studied Economics at the University of Bonn, Germany, specialising in transport economics, where he graduated in 1979. He also holds an MA in Economics. 

Mr Georges, previously a member of the Belgian diplomatic corps, was until last August the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Belgium to the OSCE in Vienna. During his diplomatic career, Mr Georges has accumulated experience in embassies and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as at the Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of Belgium to the European Union. He is now looking forward to giving the benefit of his skills to the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine.

Stephen Cotton is General Secretary of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), a global union federation of 665 trade unions representing 18.5 million transport workers in 147 countries in the maritime, port, aviation, road, rail and urban transport sectors. He was elected at the 43rd ITF Congress in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2014.

Under his leadership, the ITF has transformed into a proactive campaigning organisation, allowing the ITF and its affiliates to secure industry-leading contracts and protocols with key multinational companies in the transport sector.

He is Chair of the Council of Global Unions (CGU), a Trustee of the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and serves on the United Seaman’s Service (USS) governing body. In 2014, Cotton received the USS Admiral of the Ocean Sea (AOTOS) Award, in recognition of his work defending the well-being and fair treatment of seafarers.

As Director Global Implementation at the ICLEI World Secretariat, Sunandan Tiwari is engaged in strategy formulation, project acquisition and implementation, developing new initiatives, as well as partnership building. He has over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing international cooperation projects with a range of bilateral and multilateral agencies and foundations. With a Masters’ degree in Ecology and over 20 years of experience, his areas of expertise cover social, environmental and economic spheres for sustainable development in the urban and rural domains. Currently, Sunandan is coordinating several projects being implemented in multiple countries in the Global South, one of which focuses on developing actionable strategies and plans for sustainable urban freight.

Muneeza is an Economist at the World Bank with over ten years of experience in the development field. She is particularly interested in issues relating to economic and social inclusion.

Alan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics in the Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. A graduate of the universities of Aberdeen, British Columbia and London, he has been researching and teaching in freight transport / logistics for 40 years and published extensively on many different aspects of the subject.  Much of his research in recent years has been on the decarbonisation of logistics. Professor McKinnon has been an adviser to several governments, parliamentary committees and international organisations, including the ITF/OECD, the World Bank, European Commission, the United Nations and the IPCC. He was chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Logistics Council and the Transport Advisory Group of the EU Horizon 2020 research programme. 

As senior adviser and deputy director at the Swedish Ministry of Infrastructure in Stockholm, Åsa Vagland is responsible for such emerging technologies as connected, cooperative, shared and automated mobility, as well as mobility as a service. She also manages the Swedish Prime Minister’s Innovation Partnership Programme in next-generation travel and transportation and develops policy and strategies for transport and mobility as well as gender objectives and gender mainstreaming in the transportation sector.

Vagland earned a degree in social science from Farsta Gymnasium, an upper secondary school outside Stockholm and received her university degree in regional, transportation, and societal planning at the University of Stockholm.

Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of the Polis network in September 2014, after having been the network's Research Director for 8 years. Since 1998, she has been involved in European urban transport networking and policy activities and many EU research and innovation projects covering a wide range of urban mobility topics. Polis is the leading European network of cities and regions focussing on urban transport innovation. For 30 years already, members have been working together to develop sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow. Polis supports the exchange of experiences between European local and regional authorities, facilitates the dialogue with other actors of the transport sector, including industry and research, and acts as the urban mobility voice of its members towards the European institutions. The network engages in debates around topical issues such as MaaS, automated transport, electromobility, and shared mobility services.

Dr. Jari Kauppila is Head of Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division at the International Transport Forum at the OECD. His team works on wide range of transport policy issues and is responsible for the ITF’s flagship publication, Transport Outlook, quantitative model development and statistical data collection, among others. Since joining the ITF in 2007, Jari has also coordinated several international research projects on topics such as logistics, transport reliability, decarbonisation, road safety and infrastructure investment. Prior joining the ITF in 2007, Jari spent nearly ten years as a lead economist with the Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland. Besides his duties at the ITF, Jari is an Adjunct Professor in Transport Economics at the Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Turku School of Economics in Finland.

Max is the global head of Strategy & Business Development of Siemens Mobility, a world market leader in sustainable transport technologies for rail and road. Earlier roles within the transport sector included Head of Digital Transformation of Siemens’ Intelligent Transport Systems, CEO of Siemens Mobility Australia and Global Head of Siemens’ Software Solutions for Railways. Earlier he worked seven years as a Management Consultant with strong focus on the Transport and Building Technology sectors. He started his career in a German “Mittelstands”-Champion. Max holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in Logistics from University of Göttingen, Germany.

Ramón Cruz has nearly 20 years of experience intersecting the fields of sustainability, transportation, urban planning, environmental policy and climate change. In the past he was Senior Policy Analyst at the Living Cities Program of the Environmental Defense Fund, Vice President for Energy and Environment at the Partnership for New York City and most recently Vice President of the Environmental Quality Board (environmental regulatory agency) in Puerto Rico. He has been a consultant for the World Bank, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).  Since 2009, he has worked for ITDP’s Global Policy Program in different processes in the United Nations: UNFCCC, Post-2015 agenda, Commission on Sustainable Development, the Rio+20 process, Habitat III and the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport.  Ramón has a B.A. in International Relations from American University in Washington D.C., and Masters in Public Policy and in Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University in New Jersey.     

Philippe Crist is Advisor for Innovation and Foresight at the  International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He coordinates the research of the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board and manages international research projects for the ITF’s 59 Member countries. His current work focuses on disruptive urban mobility scenarios and examines how car-based and active mobility, public transport and taxis must adapt to these. He is also leading work on Data science and public policy within the ITF investigating new strategies to leverage knowledge derived from new and rapidly growing data sources to improve transport decision-making. In 2016 he won the Danish Cycling Embassy's Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion. His other work currently looks at managing mobility in rapidly growing urban areas, assessing GHG emission strategies in the transport sector, as well as investigating national transport asset and network management strategies. He also does much of his best thinking on a bicycle.

Axel Threlfall is Editor-at-Large, Reuters, based in London. Alongside his editorial duties, he hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news programs in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London. Before that, he was an editor with The Wall Street Journal in New York and a news reporter for Bloomberg in London. He has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media. Axel is frequently asked to moderate events for international organizations, including the United Nations and the OECD. He has a BA in History from Durham University and a postgraduate degree in journalism from City University, London.

Enrique Medina Malo is currently Chief Policy Officer at Telefónica S.A

He joined Telefónica Legal department in 2006, as Head of Public Law and hold different responsibilities in the field of Regulation and Competititon legal afairs. In 2008 he was appointed Chief Legal Officer of Telefónica, S.A., reporting to the Group´s General Counsel and in September 2011, General Counsel of Telefónica Europe, reporting to the regional CEO. Before joining Telefonica, Enrique Medina Malo served as in the Spanish Government Legal Service in different posts: Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Energy and the High Court of Cataluña.

He holds a law degree from Carlos III University of Madrid (1994) and was admitted to the Spanish Government Legal Services in 1997 (Abogado del Estado).

Pat Cox has been President of the European Parliament Former Members’ Association (2010-2014), President of the European Movement International (2005-2011), a former President of the European Parliament (2002-2004), and Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004). Between 1998 and 2002 he was President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) Group European Parliament. Prior to this Cox was a current affairs television broadcaster for RTE, Ireland's national broadcaster, from 1982 to 1986 and Secretary General Progressive Democrat Party (Ireland) between 1986 and 1989.

After concluding his studies on Political Sciences in Strasbourg (France) in 1998 , P. Alfonso worked from 1999 to 2004 as a Parliamentary Assistant to the Vice-Chairperson of the EP Employment and Social Affairs Committee.

He then worked for the Dublin-based the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. He eventually joined the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) in October 2005 as Political Secretary for Maritime Transport, Fisheries and Dockers.

As from April 2011, he became full-time Political Secretary responsible for shipping. In this capacity he coordinates the work of the ETF Maritime Transport Section - which brings together the European seafarers’ unions – focusing on quality jobs and promoting the demand for European seafarers and maritime professionals, seafarers’ social rights and well-being, and the need for high-level training.

Martin Dorsman has been the Secretary General of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations since the 1^st of November 2017. From June 2011 to the date of his appointment as Secretary General he had been the managing director of the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners (KVNR). From September 2006 to June 2011 he had been the KVNR’s deputy managing director.

Before joining the KVNR he had been employed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and as such had been working on macro-economic policy, regional economic policy and R&D-policy. In 1999 he joined the ministry of Transport, where he was responsible for fiscal maritime policy and other maritime policies. The latter two years of his employment at the ministry of Transport he was head of unit for the team responsible for the Betuwe freight rail track, running from the port of Rotterdam to the German border.

Katherine Bamford is a member of the Leadership Team at Vancouver Fraser Port Authority serving as Director, Trade Development since 2012. Ms. Bamford is responsible for providing strategic leadership and daily management of the Port’s commercial customer engagement and outreach strategies, maintaining and growing market share across the Port’s five business sectors, and developing new markets through competitive marketing strategies and policies.
Ms. Bamford joined the Port Authority in 1992. Previous to her current role, Ms. Bamford provided leadership for the Port’s strategic external communications while supporting the organization’s federal and provincial government affairs and policy initiatives. With a background in corporate communications and public affairs, Ms. Bamford has played a major role in shaping the Port’s story in the media and with external audiences.
Ms. Bamford holds an executive MBA and a Graduate Certificate for Business in the Americas from the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. Ms. Bamford also holds a BA in English from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of the Anatomy of Shipping diploma program from the Cambridge Academy of Transport in Cambridge, England.

Pat Cox has been President of the European Parliament Former Members’ Association (2010-2014), President of the European Movement International (2005-2011), a former President of the European Parliament (2002-2004), and Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004). Between 1998 and 2002 he was President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) Group European Parliament. Prior to this Cox was a current affairs television broadcaster for RTE, Ireland's national broadcaster, from 1982 to 1986 and Secretary General Progressive Democrat Party (Ireland) between 1986 and 1989.

Mr. Paulius Martinkus is Vice-Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania since 29 December 2016. Paulius is responsible for aviation, road, rail and maritime policy departments within the ministry. After graduating from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (BSc in Economics and Business) he worked as Project Manager at GILD Bankers (Tallinn, Estonia, 2006-2009) and Group Finance Controller at JSC "the Book" (2009–2011). Later he was Head of Governance Coordination Centre for State-Owned Enterprises (2011–2013), President of Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance (2014–2016). Since 2008 he has served as professional member of Boards of Directors in private and state-owned enterprises. Currently Paulius holds board member position in state owned enterprises JSC "Lithuanian Railways", SE “Klaipėda State Sea Port Authority” and JSC “Smiltynės perkėla”.

From 1977 to 1982, Dr. Hartmut Mangold studied law, German language and literature at the Universities of Freiburg
and Regensburg, completing a doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil.) in 1988.

He was the Head of Department at Brandenburg’s Ministry of Science, Education and Culture,and later moved to the Brandenburg State Chancellery. Mangold then became the Head of Department at the Federal Chancellery.

He worked as Ministerialdirigent (head of a ministerial section) at the Federal Ministry of
Transport, Construction and Urban Development.

Dr. Hartmut Mangold has been the State Secretary at the Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs,
Labour and Transport since December 2014.

Ángela María Orozco Gómez is a Barranquilla lawyer from Universidad Javeriana with a Master's degree in Comparative Jurisprudence from the University of Texas (United States), a specialist in Economic Law from the Externado University of Colombia and a Fellow at the Yale World Yale University (2003). She was designated as one of the 100 global leaders of tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (2000), as one of the 10 outstanding young people of Colombia by the Junior Chamber of Colombia (2000) and as the year's Foreign Trade executive by the Association of Foreign Trade Directors 2001). She has worked in the public sector as Minister of Foreign Trade (2002), President of Proexport (2000-2002) and Vice Minister of Foreign Trade (1998- 2000). She excelled in positions such as General and International Manager and Vice President of the Colombian Association of Flower Exporters (Asocolflores, 1995-1998), Head of the legal office of the Superintendency of Securities, where she was also an advisor (1994-1995), Associate Lawyer in Araújo Ibarra & Asociados (1993-1994); Economic Advisor to the Embassy of the United States (1993), Deputy Director of Trade Promotion Instruments (1992-1993) and Head of the Legal Division of the Commercial Practice of Incomex (1990-1992). She has also served as a member of international trade dispute settlement panels within the framework of the WTO (2015-2016) and ALADI (2004).

Mr. Akaki Saghirashvili is the Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia since 1 October 2018. Prior to this position, during 2007-2018 he took several positions at Georgian Railway: Head of Corporate Management Department; Deputy Director of Infrastructure Branch (in charge of administrative and legal issues); Head of Legal Services Office, Head of Permanent Commission on Capital and Stock Management; Deputy Head of Legal Services Office; Advisor to Executive Director on Legal Issues; Lawyer, Rental Relations Administration Group, Property Management Agency. During 2009-2011, Mr. Saghirashvili was a Lecturer of Civil Law at Caucasus School of Law. 

 

Mr. Saghirashvili holds MA Degree in Civil Law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and MA Degree in Civil Law from Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

Elmir Velizadeh has been Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies since 2018.

He is a graduate of Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute (now Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University) with Bachelor’s Degree in Automated Control Systems.

He worked at Computing Center of Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute. In the period of 1989 to 1991, while working there he continued pedagogical activities in Computing machines and programming chair. He was engaged in scientific researches on artificial intellect and expert systems and is the author of some scientific articles and teaching aids.

His Excellency Dr. Eng. Abdulla  Al-Nuaimi joined the Federal Government in 2013 as Minister of infrastructure Development, which is responsible of developing the infrastructure of the federal state road networks and federal buildings (schools, hospitals, government buildings, research centers, cultural and sports centers, police stations and civil defense, housing for the citizens, and other governmental projects).

Beside his responsibilities as a Minister Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al-Nuaimi is Chairman of Sheikh Zayed Housing Program and also he is a Chairman of Federal Transport Authority. 

Dr. Eng. Abdulla Al Nuaimi holds a Ph.D. degree in Construction Management from the University Of Reading, UK (1990), and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in USA (1980). Among his hobbies playing tennis, swimming and reading.

Juliette Foster is an award-winning broadcaster and businesswoman. She has worked for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and has anchored flagship programmes at Bloomberg Television, Sky News and BBC World Service Television.

Helen was appointed Director of TII’s Professional Services Division in 2015 following the establishment of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. This Division provides technical expertise to support the delivery of TII funded projects and network operations. Her responsibilities include transport planning, land use planning, environmental policy, road and light rail safety, research and standards. Her previous role was the Head of Strategic and Transport Planning in the National Roads Authority. Helen has over 30 years of experience in transport planning, project appraisal and project management and has worked in the UK, Ireland and France in the public and private sectors. She is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree and a Diploma in Project Management. She has been a Council Member of Engineers Ireland and Chairperson of WITS, a voluntary organisation supporting women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Timothy Reuter is Head of Drones and Tomorrow’s Airspace at the World Economic Forum. Prior to joining the Forum, he worked at Google[x] on drone delivery. A serial robotics entrepreneur, Timothy was founder and CEO of a company that designed, manufactured, and distributed a personal flying camera product and subsequently founded another company that built food delivery robots. Before developing a passion for robotics, Timothy worked for the US government at the State Department and USAID. He has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in economics and international affairs.

Yohei Fujigaki is an expert of mobility service design, planning, and analysis. After working as a social simulation engineer and consultant at KOZO KEIKAKU ENGINEERING Inc. in Japan, he had been researching Mobility as a Service (MaaS) design methodology in the University of Tokyo, and earned Ph.D in 2018. His previous work was Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is now leading the development of MaaS application and services in Odakyu Electric Railway.

Ofelia Betancor is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and currently, the Head of the Department of Applied Economic Analysis. She holds a MSc in Economics by the University of London, and two doctorate degrees in Economics (Institute for Transport Studies-University of Leeds and University of Las Palmas).  She has participated in many research projects at national and international level. Of special relevance is her participation in European projects. Currently she is also Vice-Chair of the COST Action TU1408 on Air Transport and Regional Development (ATARD). She has also collaborated with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, having participated in several missions in Latin America and the Caribbean as specialist in air transport and the economic evaluation of projects and transport policies.

 

Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.

Born in 1974, a former student of Ecole Normale Superieure and qualified teacher in philosophy, Eleonore Lacroix started by teaching philosophy in high schools and universities. After graduating the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, she joined the local administration of the Ministry of Interior. She occupied various positions in the fields of global policies among which management of crisis and urban policies. In July 2014, she integrated the RATP Group foundation as Executive Delegate. She is now Head of General Studies, Development and Territories, member of RATP Group Directory Board, with the core mission to anticipate  adaptations of mobility to territories ‘evolutions through various fields of expertise.

Pyers Tucker is responsible for developing Hapag-Lloyd’s long term strategy.  He has been at Hapag-Lloyd for the last 5 years, running major company wide improvement programmes (eg latterly strategy).  Before that he went through multiple stations, including:  Maersk, DHL at Global Customer Solutions, and The Monitor Company.  Prior to that he was in the British Army, latterly responsible for operations in Bosnia.  During that time he was also the personal staff officer to Commander of UN Forces in Bosnia and has given evidence at 6 trials at the Bosnia war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

 

Tan Chong Meng is the Group Chief Executive Officer of PSA International, a leading global port group with operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. PSA is headquartered in Singapore and owned by Temasek Holdings. Through its 40 port projects around the world, with flagship operations in Singapore and Antwerp, PSA handles 1 in 10 global container movements annually, serving all major international shipping lines and other stakeholders in the maritime supply chain.

Chong Meng joined PSA on 1 October 2011, bringing with him a wealth of experience in managing the complexity, diversity and breadth of a global business. Together with his management team, he is responsible for the overall performance of the PSA Group and provides strategic direction on growing the company’s value through maximising assets, developing PSA port positions and engaging global business partnerships.

Outside the PSA Group, Chong Meng serves as Chairman of the JTC Board, a non-Executive Director on the board of the National University Health System (NUHS), and a member of the International Advisory Panel of Singapore’s Public Service Division. He was previously a Board Member of IE Singapore.

Before joining PSA, Chong Meng served as the Executive Vice President, Global Commercial, Shell Downstream, of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. He led six global businesses – many of which are world leaders engaged in the marketing and sale of fuels, lubricants and specialty products to commercial customers vis-à-vis Aviation, Marine, Industrial, Land Transport, Construction and Liquefied Petroleum Gas. A global leader with more than 20 years of experience in Shell, Chong Meng worked in USA, Europe, China and Singapore, holding various senior leadership positions that spanned management, sales, marketing, trading, refinery operations, customer service and merger & acquisitions. 

Prior to Shell, Chong Meng had also worked in various positions with Singapore’s Ministry of National Development for five years. 

Olaf Merk is ports and shipping expert of the International Transport Forum at the OECD. As such, he has directed and written on a range of subjects, including ports policy, mega-ships, cruise shipping and decarbonisation of maritime transport. In previous posts at the OECD he worked on port-cities, urban governance and infrastructure finance. Prior to that he worked at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance.

Lamia Kerdjoudj-Belkaid is the Secretary General of FEPORT, the Federation of European Private Port Operators and Terminals since March 2014. She has a professional experience of more than 19 years during which she held different positions within the maritime and logistics sector.  Among others, she has been for more than seven year the Public Affairs manager of the French Shipowners' Organization. Between 2009 and 2012, she has also been appointed as a senior expert and advisor in the framework of several European projects financed by different DGs of the European Commission. She has also worked for private companies and corporations (among others Capmarine, Budd SA, CATRAM, EGIS) and has been in charge of consulting and business development assignments for large multinational companies. She is since 12 years a lecturer in Business schools in France and Germany in the field of stakeholders' management and multilateral negotiations.

Ali Aslan is an international television presenter, moderator and journalist. His career has included working for global news networks such as CNN, ABC News, Channel News Asia and Deutsche Welle TV.

Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE. He is co-director of the LSE Executive MSc in Cities and co-convenes the LSE Sociology Course on ‘City Making: The Politics of Urban Form’. As researcher, consultant and advisor he has been directing interdisciplinary projects comprising urban governance, transport, city planning and urban design at LSE since 2003. The focus of his current work is on institutional structures and governance capacities of cities and on sustainable urban development, transport and mobility. He is co-directing the cities workstream of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and has co-led the United Nations Habitat III Policy Unit on Urban Governance. He has previously led the coordination of the chapters on Green Cities and Green Buildings for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Green Economy Report. Dr Rode is Executive Director of the Urban Age Programme and since 2005 organised Urban Age conferences in over a dozen world cities bringing together political leaders, city mayors, urban practitioners, private sector representatives and academic experts. He manages the Urban Age research efforts and recently co-authored Towards New Urban Mobility: The case of London and Berlin (2015), Cities and Energy: Urban morphology and heat energy demand (2014), Going Green: How cities are leading the green economy (2012) and Transforming Urban Economies (2013). He has previously worked on several multidisciplinary research and consultancy projects in New York and Berlin and was awarded the Schinkel Urban Design Prize 2000.

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Clayton has 20 years of experience as a social entrepreneur, mobility expert, and international executive. He is a collaborator, communicator, and builder. Clayton co-founded PhillyCarShare and grew it to become the largest regional car-sharing system in the world, serving 50,000 members, nearly 500 vehicles, and achieving ~90% market share. PhillyCarShare displaced about 20,000 cars, reduced driving by ~50 million miles, and avoided ~46,000 tons of CO2. The company received accolades as a Harvard Innovation in American Government finalist, Best Places to Work, and EPA's prestigious Environmental Achievement. More recently as CEO of ITDP, COO of EMBARQ, and Deputy Director of WRI Cities, Clayton has led 100-200 passionate professionals to influence mobility policy & plans in over 50 cities of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, and the U.S. Clayton has played key roles in raising over $100 million; leading strategy; and forging partnerships with governments, banks, UN agencies, NGOs & companies. He also has overseen top-notch research teams authoring the "Bike Share Planning Guide" and BRT and TOD Standards. Outcomes have tangibly improved lives -- from bike sharing in Tianjin and Guangzhou, to complete streets in Chennai, to Mexico's groundbreaking climate policy. Clayton's background is city planning and mobility. He currently advises WhereIsMyTransport on data strategy and international partnerships -- empowering people and cities to access opportunity in greener, safer, inclusive mobility. He speaks regularly at high-profile international events. Most recently, he played a key role in developing the Shared Mobility Principles. Clayton began his career as a transport planner with PB, where he led BRT & rail plans; and estimated ridership, costs, and economic impact. Clayton holds two Masters degrees from MIT in transport and city planning. He loves cities, technology & culture, and enjoys dancing salsa, photography, and triathlons.

Sergio Avelleda is the Director of Urban Mobility at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. Before joining WRI, Sergio was the Secretary of Mobility and Transport in São Paulo, Brazil, where he was responsible for managing traffic challenges and the most extensive bus system in the world. He led more than five thousand people and spearheaded city implementation of Vision Zero programs to reduce traffic fatalities. Sergio was additionally in charge of taxi regulation and transport mobile apps, as well as the management of the freight transport system. He was president of the São Paulo Metropolitan Company, which transports 4.5 million people daily on four subway lines. Sergio changed how the company interacted with its users, incorporating SMS reporting and other programs, which were awarded by UITP. During his period, the company was constructing three new lines at the same time, and he led the negotiation with multilateral agencies. Prior, he had been president of the suburban trains companies in São Paulo (CPTM), a company with more than 8,000 employees and an annual revenue of $800 million. CPTM serves 22 municipalities, providing transportation for 2.1 million passengers per day. Sergio is a lawyer, and he received his MBA in 2012, at the Insper – Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa in São Paulo. He is a cyclist and is passionate about connecting people in cities.

Aimée is in charge of leading work on Climate Change Mitigation in the Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division of the Environment Directorate, at the OECD. Current work includes the development of the report "Climate Change Mitigation through a Well-being Lens", which discusses how adopting a well-being lens changes the perspective on climate  policy approaches across different economic sectors (electricity, heavy industry, residential, transport and agriculture).  Other work includes supporting countries in the development of Long-term Low-emission Development Strategies (LT-LEDS).

Before joining the Environment Directorate, Aimee was an Economist at the International Transport Forum at the OECD. She was in charge of developing case specific studies and roundtable meetings in a range of subjects such as land-use and transport integration; linkages between mobility policies, access improvements and social inclusion; strategies for improving air quality; and metropolitan governance of transport. Aimée also worked previously as part of the Transport Outlook team, analyzing regional and global passenger transport trends. As part of this work she led the development of urban mobility scenarios for different world regions and the analysis of the environmental and health impacts of different urban transport policies. Within the OECD she has also worked in the Governance Directorate, and before joining the OECD she worked in WRI-EMBARQ Mexico.

Aimée has a bachelor degree in Economics from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economómicas (CIDE) in Mexico City, a Master's degree in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick in the UK and a “maitrise” in Sustainable Development from Dauphine Univeristé in Paris.

Ernesto Monter is a Transport Principal Specialist within the Transport Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).  He is a highly skilled environmental engineer with 25 years of experience as transport and environmental specialist, with a particular focus on sustainability, environmental and social risk management in both the public and private sectors. Ernesto Monter currently leads the preparation and approval of complex loan operations at the IADB, and has spent most of his career assessing projects and seeking solutions to address adverse environmental and social impacts related to complex and challenging projects, mainly on the transport sector.

Dimitrios joined the International Transport Forum in November 2016. His principal areas of work within the ITF are urban/non-urban passenger models, urban accessibility, and passenger aviation. He is currently in working on the development of ITF’s urban and non-urban passenger models, which estimate and forecast transport demand, modal shares, and GHG emissions; and potential decarbonisation pathways. The models and their outputs are used to analyse transport policies and their impacts, and create meaningful policy recommendations. With respect to urban accessibility, he helped develop the Urban Access Framework for the project “Access and Safety in European Cities”. This project was funded by the European Commission, and developed an accessibility indicator database for all European cities with populations of over 500,000 people.

Before joining the ITF, Dimitrios completed a PhD in Transportation Systems at the MIT-Portugal Program at the Instituto Superior Técnico. In his dissertation, titled “Assessing  the  relation  between  mode  choice,  user  satisfaction,  and  quality  for  Public  Transport  systems”, he developed a set of models addressing the connections between the various elements of public transport systems and user choices and satisfaction. Dimitrios has also worked as a Research Associate in Project Drawdown, an alliance of scientists, researchers, and other stakeholders whose aim is to combat climate change by modelling the effect of existing strategies regarding how to reduce GHG emissions, and proposing promising new strategies in this regard.

Dimitrios holds a MEng in Civil Engineering (with a specialization in Transport Planning) from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and a PhD Degree in Transportation Systems from the MIT-Portugal Program at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Dimitrios is a Greek and Canadian national and speaks Greek, English, German, and French.

Tatiana joined the International Transport Forum in March 2017. Her work at the ITF has a focus on metropolitan governance of transport, urban mobility, access and safety as well as regulatory matters related to app-based mobility services. Within the accessibility line of work, Tatiana has contributed to the extension of the ITF Urban Access Framework initially developed for benchmarking accessibility levels in cities across Europe to Latin American region. Currently Tatiana is managing ITF work related to urban accessibility, a project on Zero Car Growth as well as organisation of 2019 Pre-Summit Research day in partnership with WCTRS, ECTRI and TRB.

Before joining the ITF, Tatiana spent a year working as GIS Analyst at the STT Group. There, she worked on the analysis of spatial data and contributed to the development of a methodology for monitoring of critical transport infrastructure. Before that, Tatiana was engaged in the work of HABIDATUM, a data analytics company assisting policymakers in understanding urban environment. There Tatiana has worked on a development of a visualization tool for the analysis of mobility patterns in Greater Moscow based on cell phone data.

Tatiana holds a Master Degree in Urban Governance from Sciences Po (Paris) and a Master and Bachelor Degree in Geography from Lomonosov Moscow State University. She is Russian national and speaks Russian, English and French.